Blues musician Buck Thompson playing at his home

Fieldwork

Research methods

Collecting

Sound recording

String instruments

Blues (Music)

African Americans

Musical tradition, African diaspora

Guitarists

Guitar

Guitar music

Music performance

Music

Guitarist

Musicians

Blues singers

One audio cassette. Sound recording of fifty-year old blues guitarist Buck Thompson playing tunes that he learned from the radio at his home. A lifelong migrant farmer, he played the Florida juke circuit in the 1950s. Inebriated at the time of recording, Thompson speech is difficult to decipher at times. The tape cuts off several times at Thompson's request. Additional recordings of Thompson can be found in S 1714, box 6, reels 23-24. In winter 1985, the Bureau contracted with two folklorists to conduct a folk arts survey of the St. Johns River basin in northeastern Florida. The St. Johns River is the largest and most used river in Florida, supporting much river commerce as well as a modest amount of commercial fishing. Folklorists Mary Anne McDonald and Kathleen Figgen conducted the survey from January through March 1985 under the direction of Folklife Coordinator Blanton Owen and Bureau Chief Ormond Loomis. Documentation compiled in the survey was used to prepare and present the St. Johns River Basin Folklife Area at the 1985 Florida Folk Festival.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1714

1985-01-20

Florida Folklife Program

sound recordings

audiocassettes

Sound

a_s1714_03_tape10

S1714

3

Tape 10

St. Johns River Survey

McDonald, Mary Anne

Thompson, Albert Buck

African American

Rock Me Baby

That's All Right

What I Say

Which Way Does the River Run

I Just Want a Little Bit

Stagger Lee

Gonna Find My Baby

John Lee Hooker song

Bring it Home to Me

That's All Right

3 O Clock in the Morning

Baby Won't You let Me Go Home

John Henry

Three unidentified songs

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